Barack Obama's Campaign: Wrong Again
The London Times recently discovered Barack Obama's aunt living in a Boston housing complex. It later turned out that Zeituni Onyango is an illegal immigrant and defied deportation orders. Of course, Obama's camapign tried to deflect criticism by blaming the Republicans. Here's an example:
The Democrat campaign has implied that the story might have come from Republican sources – “the American people are ... pretty suspicious of things that are dumped in the marketplace 72 hours before a campaign,” said Mr Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod yesterday.
The London Times refutes this by describing how they came to discover Ms. Onyango in Boston. The search started in a rather obvious way:
Dreams From My Father was first published in 1995, and the story of how Mr Obama returned to Kenya in 1988 to trace his roots has become the cornerstone of his political biography. Yet the US media appears to have overlooked the passage indicating that at least one relative of Mr Obama’s had moved to America and might still be there.
The Times concludes their story with disbelief over how such an obvious clue could have been ignored by so many readers:
Whatever the Democrat campaign may imply, there is nothing suspicious about the story or its timing. The only mystery, perhaps, is how so many people read Mr Obama’s book in the US without wondering what might have happened to the mysterious relative, lost in America.
This should lay to rest any disinformation Obama's campaign is feeding to the press. The revelation about Zeituni Onyango had nothing to do with the McCain campaign or the Republican Party. What I find interesting is how Ms. Onyango continuously dodged phone calls from the London Times, and in the original article, said she couldn't say anything but could speak after the election. It's also worth noting that she has been in the United States since 2004, which is around the time she came to the U.S. to see her nephew sworn into the U.S. Senate. Did she ever go back? Is it really true that Barack Obama had no clue she was in the country illegally? I think we will know the answers to these questions soon.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5068613.ece
The Democrat campaign has implied that the story might have come from Republican sources – “the American people are ... pretty suspicious of things that are dumped in the marketplace 72 hours before a campaign,” said Mr Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod yesterday.
The London Times refutes this by describing how they came to discover Ms. Onyango in Boston. The search started in a rather obvious way:
Dreams From My Father was first published in 1995, and the story of how Mr Obama returned to Kenya in 1988 to trace his roots has become the cornerstone of his political biography. Yet the US media appears to have overlooked the passage indicating that at least one relative of Mr Obama’s had moved to America and might still be there.
The Times concludes their story with disbelief over how such an obvious clue could have been ignored by so many readers:
Whatever the Democrat campaign may imply, there is nothing suspicious about the story or its timing. The only mystery, perhaps, is how so many people read Mr Obama’s book in the US without wondering what might have happened to the mysterious relative, lost in America.
This should lay to rest any disinformation Obama's campaign is feeding to the press. The revelation about Zeituni Onyango had nothing to do with the McCain campaign or the Republican Party. What I find interesting is how Ms. Onyango continuously dodged phone calls from the London Times, and in the original article, said she couldn't say anything but could speak after the election. It's also worth noting that she has been in the United States since 2004, which is around the time she came to the U.S. to see her nephew sworn into the U.S. Senate. Did she ever go back? Is it really true that Barack Obama had no clue she was in the country illegally? I think we will know the answers to these questions soon.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5068613.ece
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